Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

1 Metal Size
JE
M
M
4i
6+
6-
M 6+
M
JE
Weight
Turreted female head to r. B- 2YNNAA. MAIANAP.
right hand, fuhnen ; in left hand, hasta.
ASIATIC GREECE. 125
Jupiter standing to I. ; in
iV^ofe.— Although the sources of a branch of the Mseander were very near to Synnada, there can be
no doubt that the name Mteaudrus or Majandrius is here that of a magistrate. Vide Eclihel iii
p. 173.
Turreted female head to r. ; in field to r., small naked figure to I. R. CYNNA-
A6iiN. Pallas standing to I. ; in right hand, ( ? ) ; in left hand, hasta ; at her
feet, shield.
BOYAH. Veiled and laureate female head to r. R. CYNNAAGilN. Draped female
figure standing to I ; on head, modius ; in
right hand, scales ; in left hand, cornucopise
and drapery (Nemesis).
CYNNAAeiiN. Bearded head of Hercules to r. R. AliPIGiiN liiNiiN. Symbol
of Deity (Cybele in
?) a distyle temple ; having a circular pediment, in which is
a star.
Note.—From this coin we learn that a portion of the people of Synnada were of Doric the remainder
of Ionic descent. From a coin of Macrinus, it appears that the deity held in peculiar
honour by the former was Mars, bearing Minerva in his hand ; and by the Ionic portion, Nemesis or
Fortune bearing Sarapis and having a prow at her feet. The deities common to both portions were
Jupiter Pandemus, Cybele, Pallas, Nemesis, Lunus, Asclepius. Vide Mionnet, iv. p. 364 ; Sup. vii.
p. 620.
BOYAH. Veiled and laureate female head to r. R. CYNNAAGiiN AiiPieiiN. Helmeted
figure, in short tunic, to I. ; in extended right hand, palladium ; in left
hand, hasta.
Note.—This coin confirms the interpretation just given of the two figures with the legends re-
spectively attached to them on the coin of Maci'inus.
®EA PiiMH. Helmeted female head to r.
Electrotype from the B. M.
B. CYNNAAeaN. Two hands joined.
Note.—This reverse has reference not to the double origin of the people, but to their alliance with
the Romans. There are similar records of a avufiaxia between the two people on coins of Saga-
lassus of a still later date than the present coin of Synnada. Mionnet, iii. p. 616. Sup. vii. p. 729.
SYRIA in genere.
Trajanus.
AYTOKP. KAIC. N6P. TPAIANOC CGB. rePM.
CYPIAC. Veiled and turreted female head to r.
Head of Trajan to r.
R. KOINON
Note.—The style of this coin, and the similarity of the reverse to the heads of Antiocheia on the
coins of that city about the time of Trajan, leave little doubt that it was struck at Antioeh, which
was the residence of the Roman prefect of Syria.
TAB^ Carise sive Phrygise.
Note.—In Asia Minor (p. 173) I suggested that Dombai Ovasi, a valley to the north-eastward of
Apameia Cibotus, was the Tabenus Campus of Strabo. The similarity of the ancient and modern
names favoured this opinion, as well as that on two occasions Strabo mentions Tabse in conjunction
with Peltse, which was not far from Apameia to the northward. There is reason to believe, however,
that Dombai is not a Greek corruption, but a word of Turcoman origin (Hamilton's Asia Minor,
p. 142). After all, therefore, D'Anville was probably right in placing Tabse at Davas, which name,
in fact, is nothing else than Tabce in the usual Romaic form of the third case, with the modern pronunciation
of B and of the initial T. Tabae appears, from the vague or incidental mention of it in
Strabo and other writers, to have been not far from the frontiers of Caria, of Phrygia, and of Pisidia,
and to have been beyond Aphrodisias with reference to Laodiceia ; in the Tabular Itinerary we may
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